Bengaluru, May 13 (PTI) Congress leader and former Union minister K H Muniyappa, who was a member of Lok Sabha for nearly three decades until 2019, won from the Devanahalli assembly constituency in Karnataka by a margin of 4,631 votes on Saturday.

Muniyappa got 73,058 votes, while sitting JD(S) MLA L N Narayana Swamy bagged 68,427 votes. BJP candidate Pilla Munishamappa was in the third place with 34,404 votes, according to the Election Commission webiste.

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Devanahalli is in Bengaluru Rural district.

Muniyappa, who represented Kolar in Lok Sabha since 1991, lost the parliamentary elections in 2019.

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